[OSGeo-Discuss] Ideas/inputs needed for creating a High impact OSGeo Journal

[Christian Willmes]

Dear Suchith,


this is a great initiative, the OSGeo Journal List is 
"newsletter at lists.osgeo.org".


I aimed for improving the Journal some year(s) ago, but at this time the 
guys running the journal were not in favor of this ideas.


See this thread: 
https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/newsletter/2015-October/001188.html


And this one: 
https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/newsletter/2015-November/001205.html


(I recommend to also read also the answers to these mails in the archives.)


Though, the Landon Black (OSGeo Journal Chair at this time) recently 
stepped down.


See: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/newsletter/2017-October/001245.html


No one answered his mail until now, so effectively this committee is 
without a Chair currently...


The Journal is found here: https://journal.osgeo.org/index.php/journal


And official information is found here: http://www.osgeo.org/journal


I would support, If you and others would step up to improve the current 
situation.


Best regards,
Christian




Am 15.12.2017 um 14:11 schrieb Suchith Anand:
>
> Dear All,
>
>
> Though we have a  OSGeo journal and I thank everyone who worked to 
> make this happen, for really making impact , it needs new ideas and 
> lot of work to really make it high impact journal. I want to start the 
> discussions in the community for ideas for making the OSGeo journal 
> a high impact journal that will attract submissions.
>
>
> I think , timing wise it is good to start planning ideas even if it is 
> long term aim. Sharing some lessons learnt from GeoForAll, we 
> initially didn’t have webinar platform but we could see its potential 
> to spread our message. Initially we relied on external organisations 
> for our webinars but as soon as we had a champion (Thank you Rafael)to 
> run this for us, we moved to use our own system in place .For our 
> newsletters, it was Nikos who lead the initiative and build an 
> excellent team to make it happen. So having champions is important.
>
>
> Similarly, it is now time for us to think ideas of our own high impact 
> journal. I have been over a decade volunteering for free as reviewer 
> for many GIS journals (like many of our colleagues). I am also 
> volunteering for editorial boards of journals. Though I support the 
> idea of open access journals , I think it is important the costs of 
> publishing in open access journals comes down.I don’t know the answer 
> to how to make this possible but I thinkifthere is lot of competition, 
> then costs will come down.
>
>
> Will any one be interested to be Champion for reactivating our OSGeo 
> journal and working to create a high impact Open access journal that 
> ideally can be free for those publishing. Lot of things need to 
> beworked on to make thispossible. The Championsneeds to bring together 
> a strong Editorial Board,and maybe have a new name for the journal - 
> *International journal for Open Geospatial Science and Applications .***
>
>
> The Champions should put processes and systems in place . For OSGeo, 
> we now have thanks to Charlie and FOSS4G 2017 LOC , we have some basic 
> systems that can be use for the review process etc. We have lot of 
> good papers submitted every year in the FOSS4GAcademic Tracks (both 
> global and regional)who will all benefit but it needs a champion and a 
> team to make this possible. I am willing to volunteer as one member 
> for the Edition Board for this and review papers for free etc but I am 
> unable to lead this because of my focus and work in GeoForAll. So 
> anyone is willing tochampion ideas for this, please come forward.
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
>
> Suchith
>
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